Home / Social Media / In a recent post on Australian Business Use of Social Media, it was noted that small businesses tended to just use one platform in their social media marketing efforts, i.e. Facebook. As the size of the business increased, the more likely they were to use additional social media platforms besides Facebook. According to the latest Social Media Statistics Australia for Sep 2015, Instagram now has 5 Million active monthly users in Australia. It trails only Facebook at 14.0M, You Tube at 13.9M and WordPress at 5.75M active monthly users. Thus, there is a strong argument now for incorporating Instagram into the mix of social media marketing efforts. Here is my list of Top 10 Wine Brand Instagram Accounts. These are a mixture of small to very large wine brands which have embraced Instagram showing that successful use can be achieved with limited funds and resources. What all the brands on the list have in common on their Instagram accounts are: They are very active on the platform.

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Instagram is a funny thing: while it is undoubtedly a visually-centric medium, offering a platform for powerful images to stand alone in that whole a-picture-says-a-thousand-words kind of way, there is a heavy reliance on actual words to contextualize and caption these images, providing everything from witty quips to passionate monologues. And these comprehensive offerings provide yet another conversation starter — as we see already on Facebook and Twitter — for people to participate in an open conversation surrounding whatever the offering brought to mind. Perhaps that is why Instagram is becoming an increasingly important part of the public discourse. However, that being said, one of Instagram's charms is its brevity, both in presentation as well as immediacy when it makes it further and further down the feed. It's stimulating in every sense of the term; there's a constant excitment for the "new." If the Twitter 25 represented the top Tweeter in wine who are "not merely telling you what they're swirling and sipping," instead curating an engaged experience for followers, then the Instagram 25 represents those whose visual (and editorial) expressiveness extends well beyond a label shot or filtered photograph of a full wine glass placed artistically on top of the table.